CSS Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring CSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing CSS 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.69% - 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.15% - 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £324 - -
25th Percentile £374 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +233.33%
75th Percentile £579 - -
90th Percentile £637 - -
South East median daily rate £333 £488 £384
% change year-on-year -31.79% +27.04% -9.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Sussex

CSS falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 93 36 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 32.07% 24.66% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 27 43
10th Percentile £275 £300 £356
25th Percentile £294 £350 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £513
90th Percentile £653 £628 £723
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £50.25 - £23.60
25th Percentile £50.63 - £24.88
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.12%
75th Percentile £55.63 - £34.63
90th Percentile £56.75 - £38.00
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.71% -4.50%

CSS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CSS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

CSS job vacancy trend in West Sussex

CSS
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing CSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing CSS

CSS
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSS in West Sussex over the 6 months to 7 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CSS in West Sussex

CSS
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing CSS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing CSS

CSS
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSS within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 7 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Burgess Hill - 1 £290 -
Gatwick - 1 £650 - 1
CSS
South East

CSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Redux
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Solace